I’m outside on the patio smoking when Carlos finds me.
“You’re not supposed to be smoking,” he says, but he doesn’t really care.
“I’m vaping,” I say, indicating the little stick I’m holding. ...
Thin Days by Lauren Johnson
Fiction, LAR Online
Lavinia Fontana's Child of the Monkey is said lost
in a canopy-bearing past, her rainforest falling unheard in my bedroom but for
its laced understory leafbed layering, death’s close-call. The ...
Lavinia Fontana’s Child of the Monkey Is Said Lost by Elena Karina Byrne
LAR Online, Poetry
Wednesday, November 24
Fran wrote the date at the top of a blank page in her notebook. It was the day before Thanksgiving. She liked the even loops of her handwriting, the way it marked the first entry in her book. ...
$1.59 Per by Holly Richmond
Fiction, LAR Online
on the radio, and Christ it’s the 80s again,
and after a whole night at the baths I’m a baritone
in the back row of a choir ten blocks west.
A professional, fresh from the conservatory.
Bathhouse and parish ...
Byrd Mass for Four Voices by Patrick Donnelly
LAR Online, Poetry
Escalators going in a building flooded out, and they’re still
playing “Glory of Love,” even though we know it’s over.
Elsewhere, maybe there’s a place that retains our dignity,
a library’s patient ...
Look at What We’ve Given to the Otherwise Empty Spaces by Stephen Lackaye
LAR Online, Poetry
Antlers
Out of velvet, winter.
Out of the center, the idea splits.
Wilder stars, my eyes leap
my head is soft,
it does not end here in the cleft
between my ears:
fragment, dream, map that ...
Two Poems by Jennifer K. Sweeney
LAR Online, Poetry
At the end of touch there's a bright winter,
............acid-green pines,
the splayed wings of branches, waxy filaments
...........................canceled by fresh snow,
crisp and white like bows on a butcher's ...
Chromatics of Touch by Andrea Jurjević
LAR Online, Poetry
Reviewed by Roy White
Vanishing Acts
Poems by Brian Barker
Southern Illinois University Press, March 2019
$15.95, 72 pp.
ISBN-13: 978-0809337279
Many things are vanishing in Brian Barker’s Vanishing ...
Review: Vanishing Acts by Brian Barker
Book Reviews, LAR Online, Poetry
A True Story
I never told you the true story of the rabbits,
she said as she cut our ham into small pearled squares.
We chased peas around plates with our spoons,
our milk waiting cold and white and ...
Two poems by Sophia Stid
LAR Online, Poetry
